Archives By Author: Del Meyer

How are Hippocrates Progeny Faring?

Posted on March 9, 2018 2:39 pm By Del Meyer in Hippocrates & His Kin

They are increasingly targeted Opioid Epidemic and Deaths are Not due to Medical Prescriptions. “Opioid Overdose Crisis Is from Illicit Fentanyl; “targeting legal prescriptions is thus unlikely to reduce overdose deaths, but it may increase them by driving more users to illegal sources,” writes Dr. John Lilly in the Spring 2018 Journal of American Physicians and […]

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Without Precedent

Posted on March 9, 2018 2:36 pm By Del Meyer in The Bookshelf

By Joel Richard Paul  Laying the foundation BookPage: review by Roger Bishop BookPage Top Pick in Nonfiction, March 2018 When John Marshall was appointed as the fourth chief justice of the United States by President John Adams, the Supreme Court had few cases, no genuine authority and met in the basement of the U.S. Capitol. But from […]

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Drunk Doctors

Posted on March 9, 2018 2:35 pm By Del Meyer in Voices of Medicine

Drunk doctors and kitchen table surgeries: Historic photos of health care in Sonoma County By JANET BALICKI WEBER FOR THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | February 22, 2018 Sonoma County’s first physicians were a hardy lot filled with notable and colorful characters. Pioneer doctors in the 1800s carried medicine bags from residence to residence to treat patients. […]

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Facebook’s Priority is Profit, not Privacy

Posted on March 9, 2018 2:33 pm By Del Meyer in Overheard in the Medical Staff Lounge

Dr. Rosen:      The “Old News” coming to the front page: Facebook’s Priority is Profit, not Privacy Dr. Edwards:  We’ve known for a long time that Mark Zuckerberg was primarily interested in harvesting as much private and confidential material as he could and then selling it to the highest bidder. Dr. Milton:      The fact is that […]

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How to Decode Body Language

Posted on March 9, 2018 2:31 pm By Del Meyer in Medical Myths

Your Body Speaks So Loudly, I Can’t Hear What You Say. Learn to Instantly Unlock the Secret Code Behind the Mystery of Body Language… Are They Lying? Do They Hate You? Is She Falling in Love? Is He Ready to Cut a Deal? You’ll Know Before They Ever Say a Word … The man sitting […]

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Grandstanding Emotional Appeal for change is ineffective

Posted on March 9, 2018 2:29 pm By Del Meyer in Medical Gluttony

Social Psychology Suggests “March for Our Lives” Is Unlikely to Change Anything. Here’s Why. They say, “This time, it’s different.” But that’s doubtful. by Aaron Pomerantz Like many recent political movements, March for Our Lives was marked with grandstanding, emotional appeals and the moral outrage that have come to define modern political protests. The mainstream media […]

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There is a Major Disorder in the Ranks to Acquiesce on Obamacare

Posted on March 9, 2018 2:27 pm By Del Meyer in Medicare Review

The GOP’s Coming Obamacare Capitulation If conservatives don’t coalesce behind a new repeal plan soon, they will find themselves bystanders as their Republican colleagues link arms with Democrats. Congressional Republicans were elected to repeal Obamacare. They may run this year as the politicians who saved it. Since late last year, GOP leaders have been planning […]

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Great Medicine For Trade

Posted on March 9, 2018 2:23 pm By Del Meyer in International Medicine

A Winning Issue that deals with Gross Trading Abuse by Steve Forbes, Editor-in-Chief, FORBES HERE’S A HUGELY winning issue for President Donald Trump that would deal with a gross trading abuse and simultaneously advance his goal of reducing the prices of prescription drugs: Insist that foreign buyers of American pharmaceuticals–almost without exception government agencies–pay their fair share […]

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The real cause of gun violence

Posted on March 9, 2018 2:21 pm By Del Meyer in In The News

Speech on Guns by Virginia Senate Candidate Causes Democrat Walk-Out, Goes Massively Viral March 4, 2018 by Cassandra Fairbanks A Speech by Virginia Delegate Nick Freitas, the liberty-minded conservative who is challenging Senator Tim Kaine, discussing the importance of the Second Amendment has been viewed over five million times in the past 24 hours. Friday’s […]

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Barefoot to Billionaire

Posted on February 9, 2018 2:16 pm By Del Meyer in In Memoriam

Gave $1.5Billion to find cures for cancer through genetics. Jon M. Huntsman Sr. Created Clamshell Hamburger Package and Funded Cancer Research Founder of the company that became Huntsman Corp. worked in the White House in the early 1970s By James R. Hagerty | WSJ | Feb. 2, 2018 Jon M. Huntsman Sr. made his fortune […]

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